Prime Quotes - Page 7

• It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

  Nigel Lawson

  Country, Records, Ministers

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• You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

  John Major

  Thinking, Giving, Needs

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• I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

  Ann Widdecombe

  War, Thinking, Years

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• There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

  Harold Wilson

  Pay, Ministers, Members Of Parliament

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• I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Australia, Listening

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• On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Reform, Canada

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• I have never asked a prime minister for anything.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Ministers, Prime Minister

  "Murdoch denies political influence, Cameron disagrees" By Richard Allen Greene, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2012.

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• It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Maturity, Men, Phrases

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.68, Yale University Press

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• It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spirit, Function, Mythology

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.7, New World Library

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• The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Football, Israel, Political

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• Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.

  Roger Kahn

  Strong, Destiny, Feet

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• The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.

  Tony Abbott

  Order, Australia, Patents

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.

  Tony Abbott

  Party, Office, Rooms

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

  Brian Clough

  Ministers, Caught, Resignation

  Quoted in Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (2003).

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• The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Motivation, Artist

  Falco, Nick Cave, Allen Ginsberg (2002). “Viva la poesia”

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• Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

  Benjamin Graham

  Raw Materials, Statistics, Causes

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part II, Chapter VI, The Question of Price Stability, p. 85, 1937.

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• I tell people that the scales lie. You may have played basketball and weighed 175 pounds, with a 30-inch waist, back when you were in college. And you may still weigh 175 at 55. But you probably have a 35-inch waist and you've probably lost 30 or 40 pounds of muscle -- and gained 30 or 40 pounds of fat. The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.

  Jack LaLanne

  Basketball, Lying, Cutting

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• In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.

  John Boehner

  Life, Iran, Challenges

  "Boehner invites Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran, after Obama veto threat" by Mike Emanuel, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2015.

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• The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Character, Bangs, World

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• By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.

  Uri Avnery

  Attitude, Effort, Add

  "My Friend, the Enemy". Book by Uri Avnery, 1986.

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• [Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?

  Trent Lott

  President, Ministers, British Parliament

  "A Jolly Good Show, but the Wrong Side of the Pond" by Dana Milbank, www.washingtonpost.com. June 12, 2007.

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• One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

  Jack McDevitt

  Safety, Goal, Achieve

  Jack McDevitt (2003). “Chindi”, p.269, Penguin

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• The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

  Shinzo Abe

  Leadership, Japan, Roles

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• Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

  Mircea Eliade

  Men, World, Sacred

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• They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, War

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